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In article <PPMORRIS.502.00091EC8@mailbox.syr.edu>,
   PPMORRIS@mailbox.syr.edu (Peter P. Morrissey) wrote:
>It seems that one good strategy would be to then buy a P75 (provided of
>course that it meets your current needs) on a motherboard that is 
>capable of supporting high end Pentiums. Then, if you need more power
>later on, hopefully the prices will have dropped enough to get an even
>better deal. Again, you would have to be able to get by with the P75
>for a while for this to work.
>
>I believe the Triton II motherboard is upgradeable to high end Pentium
>chips. Is this true? Are there any gotchas? Are there any other 
>motherboards that fall in to this category?
>
>_Pete M.

I've been checking out this same topic. The SuperMicro P55CMS has a special 
socket/voltage regulator designed to support future chips >133 MHz. It will 
support up to 180 or 200 MHz, depending on who's tech sheets you believe. 
Sells for ~$300. Supposed to work well with Win95.

Intel's Zappa MB seems to only support up to 133 MHz. However, there is talk 
of future Pentium overdrive chips like today's 486 DX4s that run faster 
within the CPU, but run at the system clock rate externally. Apparently this 
would work in a board such as the Zappa.